Thousands gather on Prague’s Wenceslas Square on the day of Jan Palach’s funeral. (1969)- Jan Palach set himself on fire in Prague in protest against the August 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops. The 20-year-old university student died of his burns three days later. [1023 x 682]
Not really sure if anybody doesn’t know it but Kasabian’s Club Foot was a tribute to Palach, and in the starting of the video, his picture features on the corner of the recording device
bluemandan
Wenceslas Square is HUGE.
Like 3/4 of a kilometer long. (Yes, it’s totally a rectangle, not a square)
And it’s 60 meters wide, so it’s not exactly narrow either.
What I’m trying to say is that’s a LOT of people.
DeNomoloss
Following this, the movement went underground for 20 years and the state became even more restrictive, but by 1989 they were successful in kicking the USSR out. Always play the long game.
brnraccnt_
Just so everyone knows — while Palach is the most prominent, he was far from the only person who set himself on fire in protest of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968/69. Eighteen-year-old Jan Zajíc did so a little over a month after Palach, Evžen Plocek followed in early April. There was about 26 cases of self-immolation around Czechoslovakia throughout the first half of 1969.
redmiral_20
Were people opposted to American occupation in the west other than Italy?
GPwat
Ahhh the good old days of our "socialist friendship" with the Soviets…
the-apostle
Did anything happen as a result of these protests?
ostensiblyzero
A lot of Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being is set during this period, and it’s really, really good.
burmesefalcon
Not really sure if anybody doesn’t know it but Kasabian’s Club Foot was a tribute to Palach, and in the starting of the video, his picture features on the corner of the recording device
bluemandan
Wenceslas Square is HUGE.
Like 3/4 of a kilometer long. (Yes, it’s totally a rectangle, not a square)
And it’s 60 meters wide, so it’s not exactly narrow either.
What I’m trying to say is that’s a LOT of people.
DeNomoloss
Following this, the movement went underground for 20 years and the state became even more restrictive, but by 1989 they were successful in kicking the USSR out. Always play the long game.
brnraccnt_
Just so everyone knows — while Palach is the most prominent, he was far from the only person who set himself on fire in protest of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968/69. Eighteen-year-old Jan Zajíc did so a little over a month after Palach, Evžen Plocek followed in early April. There was about 26 cases of self-immolation around Czechoslovakia throughout the first half of 1969.
redmiral_20
Were people opposted to American occupation in the west other than Italy?
GPwat
Ahhh the good old days of our "socialist friendship" with the Soviets…
the-apostle
Did anything happen as a result of these protests?
ostensiblyzero
A lot of Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being is set during this period, and it’s really, really good.